11/8/20 my political experiences compared to AOC's November 2020 criticisms

Here is the link to my November 8, 2020, Twitter thread, in reaction to AOC's criticisms of the Democrats' performance in the 2020 elections. I discuss my own political experiences over the years to see how they compare with AOC's criticisms.

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3/7/20 review of the 2020 caucus day for US Senate

Here is the link to my March 7, 2020, Twitter thread review of the 2020 Colorado US Senate caucus day.

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2/4/20 review of a 2020 Colorado caucus training

Here is the link to my February 4, 2020, Twitter thread review of a 2020 caucus training for Colorado's House District 5 Democrats.

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1/25/20 review of a 2020 Denver Dems Central Committee meeting

Here is the link to my January 25, 2020, Twitter thread review of a Denver Democrats Central Committee meeting.

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9/15/19 proposal of a "swear jar" for Democrats

Here is the link to my September 15, 2019, Twitter thread discussion, proposing a "swear jar" idea for Democrats.

The idea was that, each time a Democrat felt the need to tweet about high-ranking folks in the Republican Party, they would instead research a swing district in their state, tweet about that swing district, and donate some money to that district.

Throughout 2019 and 2020, my worry about the 2020 elections was that Democrats were too focused on the presidential election. My fear was that the Republicans would exploit that focus. I worried that they would catch the Democrats off guard and gain seats in Congress.

Eventually, my fears were founded and unfounded.

The Democrats actually won enough seats in the Senate that they now, as of 2021, essentially have control of the Senate. And, even though the Democrats lost a lot of seats they simply should not have lost in the House, they still have control of the House. So my fears of the Republicans succeeding enough that they would keep control of the Senate and gain control of the House were wrong.

However, the Democrats simply should not have lost the seats we lost in the House in 2020. We lost them because we didn't pay attention to them. And, in districts we could have turned from Republican to Democrat, including here in Colorado, we not only didn't flip those seats, but we allowed some really extremist and ultra-conservative folks to take those seats.

I'm really hoping the Democrats, in Colorado and nationwide, form a good election strategy for 2022.

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9/4/19 discussion about a political meeting that didn't happen

Here is the link to my September 4, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about a meeting of the Colorado Democrats' outreach committee not happening.

I wanted to include this thread in this "table of contents" for a number of reasons.

I had been attending other Democratic Party meetings over the past few months. But I hadn't done any threads about them. I was just in such an uncertain place with the party that I didn't really feel like devoting my social media time to them.

Also, as I've mentioned before, even though I had been elected to the Colorado Democrats' outreach committee, it was really hard for me to get any information about the committee's meetings. And after I was finally given the info to attend the meetings, and I attended a few meetings, the meetings suddenly stopped happening. This thread marks the points where the meetings stopped happening.

And I think this shows something else -- namely, that the Colorado Democrats wondered a lot why they lost some key elections in Colorado in 2020 -- despite the fact that, admittedly, we won some very important races, like the US Senate seat.

But my feeling is, I definitely was not the only person so alienated by the Colorado Dems over the years. And, honestly, the Dems could have had a lot more of us volunteers to help them to win some more key races in 2020 if they had stopped alienating so many of us in the preceding years.

I do sometimes feel, though, like there are some folks within the Colorado Democrats who want to alienate volunteers, regardless of what it means for the success of the party.

Finally, I wanted to include this thread because I mention my efforts to get back involved in studying more spiritual things -- specifically Theosophy.

Slowly, over the following years, I have gotten back into studying more spiritual topics. I think this is important, as I think spiritual -- not religious -- actions are going to be just as important as physical, social, and political ones, in helping get our world into better shape.

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5/23/19 discussion about Colorado events and sex policy

Here is the link to my May 23, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about "a recent Colorado political event," and why I thought it pointed to the need to reassess things like the mission creep of the MeToo movement and a lot of America's sex laws and sex policy.

I didn't say this then. But the political event was the recall of Rochelle Galindo, following a big scandal related to some sexual allegations about the Colorado State Representative.

I actually need to sort out the history of my experience with this situation. I can't say what my experience actually was at this time. But I think things went like this.

At the 2019 Colorado Democrats re-org meeting, the Colorado Dems chair, Morgan Carroll, told everybody that some folks in Galindo's district were aiming to recall her, basically because, following the Blue Wave of 2018, the Democrats were working hard to push through progressive legislation. The conservatives were aiming to recall a lot of people. But they started with Galindo.

I think -- I can't say for sure, and I need to look through my notes and see what I wrote down -- that at the re-org, Carroll said that we were not to talk about the Galindo recall effort, nor about the scandal surrounding Galindo, because we weren't to give the conservatives any publicity.

I think Carroll said that the Galindo recall effort would probably just be the tip of the iceberg. The Colorado Dems wanted to see how that effort went. And if it looked like it would be successful, the Colorado Dems would then go full-force in an effort to stop that and other recall efforts.

I think that by April, it became clear that the effort to recall Galindo would work. The Colorado Dems put some effort into trying to stop the recall campaign. But it was too late. Galindo was recalled.

However, that inspired the Colorado Dems to fight against all the other efforts by conservatives to recall Democratic State Representatives who were pushing progressive policy.

But these remaining Dems were all white, and, unless Brianna Titone faced recall efforts, which I don't think she did, they were all cishet.

So it seemed to me, from the moment Morgan Carroll said, Don't protect Rochelle Galindo (and, again, I might have misinterpreted what she said), the real message here was, Don't protect an Hispanic queer woman. Instead -- the Hispanic queer woman got to be the guinea pig for the Colorado Dems' experiment about whether the conservatives would be able to get the Blue Wave representatives recalled.

This really seemed to highlight for me, not just the fact that the conservatives would use sex scandal -- even fake sex scandal -- to get progressives kicked out of office; but also that the Colorado Democrats really didn't feel much of a need to protect LGBTQ folks, but especially brown LGBTQ folks, from getting recalled.

This, again, was right in line with a lot of my feelings about sex scandals in America, anyway, as I'd watched over the years as the MeToo had severe mission creep, always digging up sex scandals about queer folks and Black, brown, Jewish, and Asian folks, while the cishet white males dominating the economy and perpetuating the same old bad system were allowed to keep on doing their thing.

Watching everything happen to Rochelle Galindo, it seemed to me that all the sex scandal infrastructure that gained power from the MeToo movement stood to benefit cishet white people a lot, and, often, hurt queer folks and folks outside of that white normative power structure more than ever.

However -- it's worth noting, because it shows what a weak character I have -- that, even as I saw this stuff happening to Galindo, I didn't stand up and say, This is baloney! We have to help her!

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4/13/19 review of Colorado Democrats Central Committee meeting

Here is the link to my April 13, 2019, Twitter thread review of a Colorado Democrats Central Committee meeting.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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3/9/19 review of Colorado Democrats 2019 reorganization meeting

Here is the link to my March 9, 2019, Twitter thread review of the 2019 Colorado Democrats reorganization meeting.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still moderately coherent. My apologies.

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12/12/18 review of One Colorado's 2018 volunteer appreciation party

Here is the link to my December 12, 2018, Twitter thread review of One Colorado's 2018 volunteer appreciation party.

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11/7/18 review of 2018 political volunteer work with One Colorado

Here is the link to my November 7, 2018, Twitter thread discussion of the political volunteer work I did with One Colorado over the 2018 election cycle -- as well as a thank you to One Colorado for the incredible work they did.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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11/1/18 review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado

Here is the link to my November 1, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado.

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10/31/18 review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado

Here is the link to my October 31, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado.

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10/25/18 review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado

Here is the link to my October 25, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado.

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10/24/18 review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado

Here is the link to my October 24, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado.

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10/21/18 review of 2018 Denver Democrats Cecilia Flores memorial dinner

Here is the link to my October 21, 2018, Twitter thread review of the 2018 Denver Democrats Cecilia Flores memorial dinner.

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10/18/18 review of an evening of political phone banking at One Colorado

Here is the link to my October 18, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking with One Coloardo.

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10/13/18 review of a day of political canvassing in Denver

Here is the link to my October 13, 2018, Twitter thread review of a day of canvassing in Colorado's House District 5.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is affected, but is still mostly coherent. My apologies.

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10/11/18 review of an evening of political phone banking with One Colorado

Here is the link to my October 11, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking at One Colorado.

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10/9/18 review of an evening of political phone banking at One Colorado

Here is the link to my October 9, 2018, Twitter thread review of an evening of political phone banking at One Colorado.

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